Blake Patterson<p>Back in the late '90s I registered / paid for a few programs for the Apple Newton with Kagi, one of the early payment processors. I hadn't much thought about them since.</p><p>On IRC, I just overheard that there is some paid search engine called Kagi, at the same URL. </p><p>But, what happened to the Kagi I knew? A little digging revealed that it did not end well for the beleaguered company headed by Kee Nethery. </p><p>Kagi Shuts Down After Falling Prey to Fraud (article dated 2016)</p><p><a href="https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling-prey-to-fraud/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-sh</span><span class="invisible">uts-down-after-falling-prey-to-fraud/</span></a></p><p>"The news was as sad as it was unexpected. Kagi, one of the earliest digital commerce companies and long a favorite of many Mac shareware developers, has shut down as of 31 July 2016, just shy of 22 years in business."</p><p>Sad story.</p><p>Web archive link of the old Kagi website: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19990208004939/https://kagi.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/1999020800</span><span class="invisible">4939/https://kagi.com/</span></a> (from Feb 1999)</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Kagi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kagi</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/payment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>payment</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ecommerce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecommerce</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archive</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computinghistory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/shareware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shareware</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/techhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techhistory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/KeeNethery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeeNethery</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/searchengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>searchengine</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Newton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newton</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PalmPilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalmPilot</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/technews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technews</span></a></p>